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often enouoh. So I took mv own course, 

 bought four ponies, and had a "bamboo" cart 

 built for me. I had the seat placed rather 

 high and on it a box, literally a box — which 

 I found most useful, for it carried my books 

 and pipes — from which to cirive. The net 

 underneath carried the bao-oraae, and the whole 

 was drawn by two ponies tandem fashion. The 

 road was rough and in places very heavy, but 

 it was nowhere impracticable, and I drove over 

 the whole of it for three years without a serious 

 accident. The low centre of gravity of a bam- 

 boo cart makes the danger of upsetting small. 



But it may be gathered that during the three 

 years I drove up and dow^n the frontier, I 

 learned somethinor of tandem-drivino from a 

 practical point of view^ 



For example, I learned that breast harness is 

 not nearly so good as collars on rough roads, 

 and that horses that will draw well in a collar 

 will hang back and sometimes take to jibbing 

 altogether in breast harness. In very rough 

 and stiff ground where I wanted all the draft 

 power I could get, I used to unhook the 

 leader's traces from the usual place and put 

 them on to rings put for that purpose at the 

 end of the shafts. This gave a more direct 

 pull on the load, and certainly made more 

 effectual use of the horse power. 



